In Descent, Jonas Quinn risks his life to save SG-1 by swimming into a flooded section of the mothership and releasing the controls allowing our heroes access to the ship's landing bay.
“Corin Nemec is able to hold his breath for over a minute-and-a-half, which surprised the hell out of all of us,” laughs producer Peter DeLuise, who also directed the episode. “I was holding my breath while watching him and I couldn't believe how long he was able to stay under the water.”
Paul Mullie continues, “Peter shot this take that followed Corin all the way down the corridor. He swam into the room and started playing with these controls. Corin moved a bunch of discs around and then he swam around to the other side and did the same thing. It was one continuous shot and it lasted almost two minutes. We said, 'We have to use this shot. There is no way the audiences are going to believe that he did this unless we show an uninterrupted take. Unfortunately, one of the discs fell out of Corin's hand, so there's a moment in the episode where we had to cut away to do an insert. It's going to look like we tried to strech the scene out so that it would seem more heroic that his character stayed underwater for that long, but, in fact, Corin actually did.”
(TV Zone Special #46)
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Not my best work but this felt like them so
Someone please take picsart away from me
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Teal'c: We die free
Sam: Or we die trying
Jonas: ...Are those the only choices?
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your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores?
Jonas motherfuckin’ Quinn.
Now, to be fair, the SG-1 fandom is not primarily at fault for ignoring Jonas, and I do see lots of love for him going around (although the relative lack of Jonas fics is frankly tragic). No, it was the show that did him dirty first by shipping him off at the start of season 7, only bringing him back once after that (and putting him through the wringer then to boot), and then NEVER once mentioning him again despite confirming that Langora had fallen to the Ori? Are we supposed to just accept that SG-1 just … didn’t care enough to go check on him..? Appalling. I so deeply wish that more people in the fandom cared enough about him to have fics focused on him and what happened to him.
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please reblog this post with your favourite Jonas Quinn scenes/gifs bc I am in my feels about my canonically neurodivergent son
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I was looking at the map and…
So the Stargate writers were just like “quick! What can we call this alien country?” And just picked the name of a city 4 hours away from them
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i miss jonas sometimes. godspeed you funky little alien
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